Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-23

convicted.
Bank sneaks form the next grade of
criminals. They travel never less than
three in number One keeps a close
lookout for policeman, and on his ap-
proach will give an agreed warning; the
second goes into bank, attracts the
attention of a man who may be counting
his money, by dropping few paper dol
lars on the floor and then calling the
attention of the victim to them with
polite you have dropped some of your
money, STRIP The dupe looks up, sees
nice-looking, well-dressed person at his
side and stoops to pick up the notes, when
the third fellow, who has been waiting
for this chance, seizes the money the vic
tim has left on the counter and glides
away. If there are not too many clerks
around an attempt will be made to slip
into the vault The attention of the en-
ployees will be engaged in changing
notes for the confederates while one of
the mob" sneaks inside the vault and
grabs what he finds in cash lying within
easy reach. Little" Horace Hoven,
Billy Burk , who was caught in the safe
of the Baltimore Savings Bank in 1880;
George Carson, who worked the Metro
politan Bank in Washington five months
ago; Joe McCloskey, now in the Mary
land penitentiary under the name of An
drew l.. Hand, for grabbing a pile of
greenbacks in the National Mechanics
Bank of Baltimore, and Charles Fisher
are well-known bank sneaks.
Beyond these grades it is difficult to
rate the standing of thieves. Possibly the
heavyweight" man comes next. He vic
timizes the proprietors of jewelry stores
by pretending to want to buy scarf-pin,
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good with much mystery and MANY inti,
nations that thew are smnggled when in
reality thew are not worth one,tbird tho
money asked for them The "ssw.SnstH
fellows nrev mon the cuniditv of not
too scrunuions neonIe Thew sdvertise
schemes which # ia announced will Lead
to the fortune of anv one who answers
the advertisement a renlv 10 cent and
n corresnondencei il struck M After n faw
cautiously worded epistles the "saw dust"
man states that he is in the "preen goods"
business: in other words has counterfeit
money he would cell at a low nr;ce on
every s1OO worth A meeting IL arrsnced
in a citv and the dune goes there ne 10
met bv the town sharDer conducted to
the Mace where the game 10 nract;ceI
and shown a satcbel Filled with monev
The termination overnowers him. he bmys
and is handed a satchel which in the
meanwbile has been deftlv substituted
for the one he first saw and which on
examination contains onIv trash Ono
of the foremost "saw-dust, men. The
Davis was shot dead In New York last
summer in trying this game by a Texan
who had come on to meet him.
coincidence men" are nersuasive fell
lows who wheedie money from their
victims in ali sorts of wavs The most
brazen of this sort are the "bunco
steerers"
One of the panp will accost a stranger
In a most pleasant manner offer his hand
and exclaim "Whv how do Won do M
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sir T am not ACQUAINTED with Won - 10 the
natural answer of the rnraI nerson
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smith, ooh I beg vour nardon 7
thonght Won were from S6naeSael y
placidlv saws the "pigeon. !" dNo I am
from Polx etown" ipnocentlv continues
the nrosnective dune The citv chan
after few nleasant words hows himself
away and gives To an accomni;ca Who
has been waiting for him the ;nfor,
nation reca;ved From tho countrrnoon